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 SEQUEL TO INKERMAN NAKUATIVE. 171 the French or the Enc;lish had indeed been de- chap. spatched on the battle-field whilst lying disabled !_ by wounds, they must have owed their fate — not to the ruthlessness, but— plainly to the outraged piety of his troops * If Eussians butchered the wounded, there were also Eussians — wounded themselves — who, al- though lying prostrate, persistently fired on our troops ; t and at one time in a part of the field, there were so many of them busied in this way that their fire seemed at first to proceed from an organised body of infantry. Captain (now General) Charles Morris, E.A., commanded a battery of field artillery belonging to the Light Division, which was sent to take part in the fight on Mount Inkerman ; j and hav- ing in person moved forward between 10 and 11 o'clock with two of his guns to a position so cliosen as to be almost over the crest of the hill, he was plying with ' case ' a body of Eussians advancing against the Second Division camp, when he found that his men were suffering under fire from an- church iu questioa was a small, antique structure, sacred to St Vladimir, which stood near Quarantine Bay. The French, it seems, at iirst took only firewood from it, but afterwards some of them pillaged it. This conduct was denounced as ' Vandal- ' i.sm ' by General Forey, in an order of the day, and it is stated by Bazancourt (p. 105) that some of the delinquents were pun- ished. Prince Mentscliikolf says that the acts of spoliation were visible from the ramparts of Sebastopol. t Supposing that they had not surrendered, these last Rus- sians were not committing an outrage. I Despatch of Col. Lake, R.A., 7th November 1855— a de- spatch awarding high praise to Captain, now General C. Morris.
 * The Prince to the Allied Generals, Nov. 9, 1854. The